Achievements

The UC4G project has been successfully completed with fruitful outcomes. It has generated a total of 49 journal publications (43 published/accepted and 6 under review, 1 invited), 47 conference papers (including 4 IEEE best paper awards and 6 invited papers), 5 invited keynote speeches, 2 patents, and 8 new joint research grants amounting to about £2.25M.

H.-J. Tang, K.-F. Tong, and W. Hong, “Antenna Configuration for Use in a Mobile Communication Device,” international patent international application number: 1210114.3, application filed on 8 June 2012.

Tsinghua Universtiy, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Southeast University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Zhejing University, University of Science and Technology of China, BeiHang University, China Telecom, Huawei, "Fundamental research on the energy and resource optimized hyper-cellular mobile communication system", supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, China, ¥30,000,000 (¥4,100,000/£ 410,000 for international collaboration), Jan. 2012 - Aug. 2016.

Datang Telecom (Dr. Shaoli Kang), Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications (Prof. Xiaofeng Tao), and University of Surrey (Prof. Zhili Sun), “Cognitive Radio Research Based on TD and Evolutionary Technologies,” Supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), China, ¥ 5.5 million(£ 0.55 million), 2010-2013.

Shanghai Research Centre for Wireless Communications (WiCO), University College London (UCL), and British Telecom (BT), “Analysis, Modelling and Demonstration of Future Wireless Broadband Traffic and LTE-TDD Relay Technologies,” Supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), China, ¥ 5.03 million (£ 0.53 million), 1/12/2008-30/11/2011.

Joint R&D Centre

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, “Beijing International Science and Technology Cooperation Base on Wireless Communications”, established in Mar. 2012.